English 11 Unit 1 Culture and Idenity

Unit Objective: At the end of this unit, the learner will (TLW) create a cultural autobiograaphy based on the scoring guide (PS 10,12)
Essential Question: What is your cultural Background:

Terms to Know

1. Culture 9. norms
2. Identity 10. values
3. Melting Pot Theory 11. sanctions
4. Mosaic Theory 12. subculture
5. Material Culture 13. culture shock
6. Nonmaterial Culture 14. ethnocentrisim
7. symbols 15. counterculture
8. language 16. cultural autobiography
Readings/Handouts
Part 1: How we see ourselves:

1. Tupac Shakur- When Ure Heart Turns Cold/Where there is a Will
2. Walt Whitman - I Hear America Singing p 448
3. Langston Hughes- I, Too p .929
4. Nikki Giovanni- Nikki-Rosa
5. Sylvia Plath -Mirror p.1216
6. Joy Harjo - Suspended p. 1083 -1084
7. Allan Sherman - The Gift of Laughter

Part II: How others view us:
8. Erin Gruell - The Freedom Writer's Diary (excerpt)
9. From Stud Terkel's Race (Dianne Romano & Anita Herbert)
10. Anna Quinlan - One Day, Broken in Two p. 1156-1158